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Originally Posted by Matt D
I wonder whether the Torygraph's website has signed up with OIX, perhaps...
Any chance of Phorm being audited according to UK/EU privacy & data protection standards, instead of American?
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As far as I am concerned, any privacy assurances given by a commerical company are not worth the paper they're written on. The only audit I would even consider trusting would be one undertaken by a neutral, non-profit making organization who has nothing to gain or lose by telling the truth. Ernst & Young can claim to be impartial, but at the end of the day, if they publish conclusions that scupper the client's product, then they're not going to attract much future business, are they?
I don't think the UK government are going to stick up for us on this one, because there's the promise of someone somewhere making a huge pile of money out of this, and they seem to be much more interested in "economic growth" than "citizen welfare" - so I think the EU is a better bet. Maybe we all ought to be writing to our MEPs about this (I don't even know what mine's name is...)